System and methods for optimizing costs based on care plans

摘要

A system enables users to customize a “total care plan”, which consists of a set of in-home care tasks plus additional caregiving related attributes such as time for carrying out a task, supplies needed, and estimated cost for each task. In this system, total care plans are used to plan, schedule and manage a person's daily life for elderly or people with long-term health issues. The included methods provide users ways to optimize the cost of products and services needed to carry out their care plan that meet their quality and financial requirements, and caregiving or health constraints. Methods are provided to further reduce the total cost of the products or services by leveraging the resources they already have, and applying their insurances or social benefits. Methods that offer users the option of applying various ways to get volume discounts are also provided which further optimize costs.

主权项

1. A system for optimizing costs of purchasing of products and services based on care plans, the system displaying a total care plan template including details and the system comprising:
a total care plan management module for defining and displaying the details, providing a plurality of care plan templates for a user to define at least one customized total care plan, and storing the plurality of care plan templates and the at least one customized total care plan in a total care plan database; a user and team management module for managing a plurality of user accounts in a users database, wherein the plurality of user accounts comprises a user specific information with a plurality of user preferences, a plurality of health conditions, a financial condition, insurances carried and a user identity related information stored in the users database; a care resources management module for managing a care resources database, the care resources database storing a plurality of care resources, each care resource having its properties, and the care resources management module monitoring whether a change has been made to the plurality of care resources, a change has been made related to the use of the plurality of care resources in the at least one customized total care plan, a change has been made in the plurality of user preferences, a change has been made to a plurality of care packages associated with the at least one customized total care plan, and a change has been made to the plurality of care resources including their properties, wherein the plurality of care packages are defined as all the care resources required for carrying out the at least one customized total care plan; and a marketplace management module for managing a plurality of providers of the care resources stored in the care resources database, the plurality of care packages needed, the cost of the plurality of care packages that can be afforded by the user and a plurality of available care packages according to the at least one customized total care plan, and for the user to make activities to access, wherein all the activities accessing the marketplace management module are stored in a marketplace database; wherein the care resources management module notifies the marketplace management module when the care resources management module detects a change has been made to the plurality of care packages associated with the user so the marketplace management module accesses a plurality of external websites for retrieving a latest information to optimize the total costs and the available care resources according to the plurality of user preferences.